Chinese hackers 'steal' blueprints to new Australian spy HQ

[cronus]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... py-HQ.html

Chinese hackers 'steal' blueprints to new Australian spy HQ

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation said the documents taken included cabling layouts for the huge building's security and communications systems, its floor plan, and its server locations.
But Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr has insisted that the incident would not damage ties with China.
"It's got absolutely no implications for a strategic partnership," Carr said, without confirming or denying China was behind the attack.
"We have enormous areas of cooperation with China."
The state broadcaster's investigative Four Corners programme said the attack on a contractor involved with building the new Canberra headquarters of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation was traced to a server in China.
It cited security experts as saying the theft exposed the agency to being spied on and may be responsible for a cost-blowout and delays to the opening of the building, which was supposed to be operational last month.
Des Ball, from the Australian National University's Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, said the blueprints would show which rooms were likely to used for sensitive conversations, and how to put devices into the walls.
"Once you get those building plans you can start constructing your own wiring diagrams, where the linkages are through telephone connections, through wi-fi connections," he was quoted as saying.

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[pErvinalia]

Well done, spooks.

[cronus]

Well done, spooks.

A more advanced civilization will subsume a less advanced one. Did they find where the beer was to be hidden?

[JimC]

Actually, the real spy HQ is cunningly concealed in a basement under a pub...

Those poor, simple Chinese...

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Any sufficiently advanced wiring diagram is indistinguishable from magic.

[pErvinalia]

They all spy on each other. Serves the fuckers right.

[Jason]

Australia has intelligence?

[Trinity]

no, they have ecnegilletni